How to format your references using the Fire Safety Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Fire Safety Journal. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

[1]

R.C. Wilson, The Great Goodbye, Nature 407 (2000) 303.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P. Van Roy, D.E.G. Briggs, A giant Ordovician anomalocaridid, Nature 473 (2011) 510–513.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C.L. Piscitelli, H. Krishnamurthy, E. Gouaux, Neurotransmitter/sodium symporter orthologue LeuT has a single high-affinity substrate site, Nature 468 (2010) 1129–1132.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A. Fotin, Y. Cheng, N. Grigorieff, T. Walz, S.C. Harrison, T. Kirchhausen, Structure of an auxilin-bound clathrin coat and its implications for the mechanism of uncoating, Nature 432 (2004) 649–653.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

[1]

G.H. Gaynor, Decisions, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

S. Chessa, S. Knauth, eds., Evaluating AAL Systems Through Competitive Benchmarking. Indoor Localization and Tracking: International Competition, EvAAL 2011, Competition in Valencia, Spain, July 25-29, 2011, and Final Workshop in Lecce, Italy, September 26, 2011. Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Gu, Z. Aslanyan, C.W. Probst, Understanding How Components of Organisations Contribute to Attacks, in: B.B. Brumley, J. Röning (Eds.), Secure IT Systems: 21st Nordic Conference, NordSec 2016, Oulu, Finland, November 2-4, 2016. Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 54–66.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Fire Safety Journal.

Blog post

[1]

A. Carpineti, Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Wear A Bra, According To Science, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/no-bra-day-special-are-bras-bad-you/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

[1]

Government Accountability Office, National Science Foundation: Better Use of Existing Resources Could Improve Program Administration, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1994.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R.M. Amin, Detecting targeted malicious email through supervised classification of persistent threat and recipient oriented features, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2010.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

[1]

A. Stevenson, Big Investors Ripe for a Fight, New York Times (2017) B1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Fire Safety Journal
Abbreviation	Fire Saf. J.
ISSN (print)	0379-7112
Scope	General Chemistry Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality General Materials Science General Physics and Astronomy